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Volume 13, Number 7—July 2007
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Large Water Management Projects and Schistosomiasis Control, Dongting Lake Region, China

Yue-Sheng Li*†, Giovanna Raso†‡Comments to Author , Zheng-Yuan Zhao*§, Yong-Kang He*, Magda K. Ellis†, and Donald P. McManus†
Author affiliations: *Hunan Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Yueyang, People’s Republic of China; †Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; ‡University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; §Central South University, Changsha, People’s Republic of China;

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Figure 6

Schistosoma japonicum infection prevalences of migrants and water buffaloes in 2 areas in Dongting Lake over 9 years where the Return Land to Lake Program has been implemented (27). No bovine prevalence data were available for both villages for 1997, 2002, and 2004, and no human prevalence data were available for both villages for 1998. No buffaloes were present in Qingshanhu in 2000, 2001, and 2003.

Figure 6. Schistosoma japonicum infection prevalences of migrants and water buffaloes in 2 areas in Dongting Lake over 9 years where the Return Land to Lake Program has been implemented (27). No bovine prevalence data were available for both villages for 1997, 2002, and 2004, and no human prevalence data were available for both villages for 1998. No buffaloes were present in Qingshanhu in 2000, 2001, and 2003.

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